ins Copper Wire holding 133Eu/t ?

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    I hope this is posted in the right forum section.

    I want to make a geothermal power plant with buildcraft in the nether, and I'm using 6 ic2 geothermal generators all next to each other like in picture A.
    This works fine. I allready have one such setup running for days and it's sending 117-119Eu/t into the MFE. Pretty good and compact.

    I dont know why but i tried using copper wires. And this is the result... (picture B)

    Now i tried 2 generators and i saw they provided 40eu/t. ok maybe copper wiring can be "overclocked". Tried 80eu/t, still good.
    But 140eu/t???... that should fry gold cables.

    What am i missing here.

    I feel stupid now :|. I've searched for hours on google and only found wiring guides on tekkit wiki and ic2 wiki that were beeing updated or outdated.

    It didn't cross my mind to search these forums, sorry :(.

    Thank you for the links.

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    Quote from Zjarek

    In IC2 electricity is only a buzz word for small magical dwarfs carrying nanobatteries. From every energy source or storage there is one dwarf released every tick. Size of a dwarf is determined by amount of energy they are carrying. Cables are in reality just a tunnels where they run. If a cable or machine don't provide enough space for a dwarf it will get angry and blow up.

    However many dwarfs are happy to run alongside each other and will in cooperation carry any amount of energy through a cable. Big dwarf will still prefer to blow up, then to split, but he can split into smaller dwarfs in transformer. Every smaller dwarf which is produced by transformer can go to the same output tunnel.


    These useful little creatures are also sometimes nicknamed packets.